An independent agency, the service gets no tax dollars for its day-to-day operations but is subject to congressional control.
Back in Washington, the fate of several pieces of similar gun policy legislation wending their way through a Senate committee could foreshadow the nature of the upcoming congressional gun control debate.
Only when Republicans won control of both congressional houses in November 1994 did the stock market really grow legs.
And secondly, the Republicans don't have control of those congressional committees, so there's a lot of people who would normally would anteing up to get access don't feel the need to.
But Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were both furious, believing White had operated behind their backs or was incapable of running his department, or at least of maintaining control over his congressional liaison operation.
David Frum has a piece on CNN.com saying that if the President takes on gun control at the Congressional level, he could chip away at the political capital he needs to pass other crucial legislation, like a tax plan to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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Also in attendance were senior members of the Congressional Budget Office, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and industry experts.
Together, the parties control 71 percent of congressional votes, and could rally two-thirds majority support for bills that require constitutional amendments.
Gillespie hoped to help his party get control of statehouses where congressional redistricting was pending, thereby leveraging victories in cheap local races into a means of shifting the balance of power in Washington.
Because the HAA harnesses the vast pool of money that is today distributed inefficiently through the tax break for employer-provided care, and then couples it with clever cost-control mechanisms, the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation have judged that the HAA will be revenue neutral or even revenue-enhancing within a few years.
But history shows it will be an uphill battle for the Bush administration, because the party in control of the White House usually loses congressional seats in the mid-term elections.
Further reductions are coming with the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the failure of the equally misnamed congressional super-committee.
Lawmakers hauling oil executives in front of a Congressional panel and berating them for earning too much money does little to control these factors.
That sort of savings is exactly what congressional Republicans have sought from the U.N. since they took control of the House and Senate in late 1994.
That means that despite a push by the White House and Democrats for tougher gun control steps, Feinstein's full measure is given little chance of winning congressional approval.
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The Bush Administration and Congressional supporters of its mobile missile plan have set the stage for a rout in the arms control negotiations.
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Unless Republicans, who nominally control the place, can show the electorate that they have achieved something in this congressional session, they will be punished by the voters.
But critics of the plan, notably the general aviation crowd on whom more of the burden would fall, complain that the FAA's financing proposal would hike taxes, reduce congressional oversight, and spawn a massive bureaucracy to track and tax the use of air traffic control.
The EPA, citing the Congressional refusal to enact flawed cap-and-trade policies, is now attempting to impose command and control regulations on the power and energy industry.
The Virginia results mean the Republicans will have total control of the redistricting process, which should put them in position to make gains in the congressional delegation.
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